Posted 12 years ago
argentco
(2 items)
A gift from my great uncle. I would love to know what cathedral this is (my guess is Cologne, Germany). Also who is Prof W.P. van Ed? Is this thing worth anything?
Painting by Prof W.P. Van Ed | ||
| argentco's items1 of 2 |  | |
I found the name (found out it's Walter Prescher van Ed as well) on Wikipedia's German pages, and, thanks to Google Translate, was able to glean this bit of information about him:
"He studied at the Dresden Art Academy, where he was a pupil of Ewald Karl Max, and Paul Roessler Enderlein. In 1948 he received the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin, the title of professor and was then Associate Professor at the Dresden Art Academy. In 1961 he was a visiting professor at the College of Fine Arts in Nancy. Ed van Prescher was an honorary citizen of Montmartre.
Paris, Prague and Dresden were among the focal points of his life. He was a cosmopolitan who felt most in his adopted home of Paris itself at home. In Prague he met Oskar Kokoschka know, whose master class he was and who helped him to break through. In Paris he had close friendships with great artists, whose pupil he was and he also painted, etc. Fernand Leger, Jacques Villon, Maurice Utrillo, Jean Cocteau, Karel Appel.
His late-Impressionist paintings he made ??at international exhibitions in New York, Paris, Nancy, Nice, Dresden, Berlin, Munich and Frankfurt to a term in the art scene."
Now that we've got that information, I headed to some painting auction house websites to see what else I could find. Some of his paintings had realized prices of no more than $100, but one painting (linked here: http://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/PORTRAIT-DES-FREUNDES-UND-KUNSTLERS-KARE/A60DE1B1B56D3C7C) sold for 2,600 Euros. Not too shabby if you ask me.
Whoops, didn't finish. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find your painting, but it looks like it could be worth having it appraised. I wish I could have given you the answer about the church, but, hey, now you know some more about the guy. Thanks for sharing, it's a beautiful impressionist work.
I don't think this is Kolner Dom. My van Ed is of the pont neuf in Paris. He painted a lot of Parisian scenes. He also painted horses and huntsmen on a regular basis. I bought my painting in about 1975 in Germany.
Its a picture of the town of Regensburg in Bavaria-Germany